Carol H Tucker Passionate about knowledge management and organizational development, expert in loan servicing, virtual world denizen and community facilitator, and a DISNEY fan
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In 334 BC Alexander the Great defeated Darius III of Persia [Battle of the Granicus]. In 1799 Napoleon made a statement in support of re-establishing Jerusalem for the Jews. In 1819 the SS Savannah left port at Savannah, Georgia, United States and arrived at Liverpool, England, on June 20 becoming the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean. In 1849 Abraham Lincoln filed a patent for an invention to lift boats over obstacles in a river, making him the only US President to ever hold a patent. In 1906 U.Spatent #821,393 is issued to the Wright Brothers for their "Flying-Machine". In 1960 the most powerful earthquake ever recorded, 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, rocked southern Chile [the Great Chilean earthquake] claiming 1,655 lives. In 1987 the first Rugby World Cup kicked off with New Zealand playing Italy at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand. And in 2016, @NASAVoyager is 18 hrs 35 mins 54 secs of light-travel time from Earth (2016:143:120000:1L)
On this day, seven years ago. at the height [depth?] of the recession with unemployment running 10% in this area, I was hired for Loan Servicing at Potomac Business Services LLC -- I started two weeks later and I am still there today. Being a bit of a knowledge nomad, working my career by going where my KSA in Loan Servicing was needed, this is the longest that I have been with any employer except for C&F in Ellicott City [I was there for 12 years from 1987 - 1999]. The shortest I was with any employer was nine months -- that commute from Randallstown to Reston was just more than I could take! And sadly, only two of my prior full-time employers are still in busness: the teamsters are still in Alaska [since I haven't paid dues in over 40 years I rather think that I am no longer considered a member], and Eagle Bank appears to be thriving. The others? All seven are history: Mother Goose Shoes went out of business and the others were all bought up -- Equitable Bank, Commercial & Farmers Bank, Millenium Bank, Maryland Permanent Bank, The Washington Savings Bank, MainStreet Lenders -- such is often the fate of small businesses. Moving from employer to employer enabled me to hone my skills, moving up both in responsibility and pay. On the other hand, despite my avid interest in knowledge management, I have only ever been able to practice a stealth version, implementing processes and procedures that encourage KM at each organization. Pretty early on, my resume started screaming "banker" to prospective employers and it became impossible to move my skill set to another industry. But the real downside of this career path is that I totally missed the pension boat [I started into the workplace late for my age, starting full-time in 1985], and as a result, am totally reliant on what I have been able to save in my 401K and Social Security benefits, which means I am still working at 66 without much prospect of retiring for at least six years if not longer.
And so, today is the start of a new week and tomorrow means I will be back to work....
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